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Avalue’s EMX-APLP and EMX-SKLUP are thin Mini-ITX boards that tap Intel’s Apollo Lake and Skylake-U CPUs, respectively, each with triple displays and 4K.
Avalue has launched a pair of “thin” Mini-ITX boards supporting Intel processors. The company never mentions the vertical dimension on the 170 x 170mm EMX-APLP and EMX-SKLUP motherboards, but the photos suggest they fit the general description. No OS support is listed, but Linux and Windows should run with no problems.

The EMX-SKLUP is aimed at industrial, automation, small retail store POS, portable medical Point-of-Care, vehicle PC, DVR, and set-top box applications. It appears to be Avalue’s first thin Mini-ITX board based on an Intel Core processor. Avalue has already released a full-height EMX-H110P Mini-ITX board, which similarly runs on 6th Generation “Skylake” processors.

The new EMX-SKLUP focuses on the dual-core, 15W TDP U-Series parts, including the up to 2.6GHz Core i7-6600U. Other Skylake thin Mini-ITX boards include the Adlink AmITX-BW-I, Advantech AIMB-285, Congatec Conga-IC170, and Eurotech CPU-521-17.

Signaling just how close Intel’s low-end Core and high-end Atom/Pentium/Celeron product families have aligned, both boards offer triple display support, with individual DP and HDMI ports going up to 4K resolution, and LVDS connections up to 1920 x 1080. The extra-effort audio support is also almost identically spec’d, with analog and digital (S/PDIF) connections and built-in speaker amplifiers. Both boards provide dual GbE ports and wide-range 12-24V power, but are limited to 0 to 60°C environments.

EMX-APLP

The EMX-APLP with Pentium N4200 supports up to 16GB DDR3L, and provides 2x SATA interfaces, with one of the SATA ports available as mSATA 3.0 at the available mini-PCIe slot. There’s also an M.2 Type A with a WiFi module offered as a default, which can be swapped out for a PCIe slot. A SIM card slot is also available. The EMX-APLP is further equipped with triple display support, audio I/O, 9x USB interfaces, and 6x serial interfaces, among other features.

The EMX-SKLUP with Skylake-U is notable for offering up to 32GB DDR4 RAM, as well as 2x SATA interfaces. The board provides an SD slot, PCIe expansion, a SIM card slot, and both M.2 Key B (storage) and M.2 Key A (PCIe/USB) slots. You also get 8x USB, 6x serial, and both digital and analog audio, among other features.